Hashmi, Zainab

Zainab Hashmi

Associate

She/Her/Hers

zainab.hashmi@lw.com
    Hashmi, Zainab

    Zainab Hashmi

    Associate

    zainab.hashmi@lw.com

    Profile

    Zainab Hashmi is a corporate associate in the Houston office of Latham & Watkins.

    Zainab advises public and private companies and private equity funds on a range of strategic domestic and cross-border transactions. A versatile corporate lawyer, Zainab’s practice includes:

    • Public and private mergers, acquisitions, and dispositions
    • Private equity transactions
    • Initial public offerings, underwritten equity and debt offerings, and private placements
    • Structured finance, including asset-backed securitizations
    • Corporate governance matters

    At Latham, Zainab is a member of the firm’s Recruiting Committee and the Women’s Lawyers Group.

    Zainab maintains an active pro bono practice, representing individuals seeking asylum, expungement, or sealing of juvenile criminal records, as well as counsels in guardianship and estate-planning matters.

    Zainab attended Harvard Law School, where she received Dean’s Scholar Prizes in Advanced Corporate Transactions and Federal Taxation. While attending law school, Zainab worked as a legal extern at the Massachusetts Attorney General’s Office and mediated cases in small claims court as part of her clinical courses. She also served as vice president and treasurer of the Harvard Women’s Law Association and as a line editor for the Harvard Journal of Law and Technology and the Harvard Journal of Law and Gender.

    Prior to law school, Zainab was an international tax accountant at a public company in Houston. Zainab also holds an active CPA license in Texas.

    Experience

    Zainab’s representative experience includes advising:

    M&A Transactions

    • Priority Power, one of the largest independent providers of turnkey energy management services, in its sale to I Squared Capital
    • Cactus Family Farms in its sale to Standard Nutrition Company
    • R.R. Donnelley & Sons Company in its acquisition of a digital & print marketing business from Vericast Corp. 
    • Chesapeake Energy Corporation in its business combination with Southwestern Energy Company
    • Petra Funds Group in its strategic investment from Charlesbank Capital Partners
    • H2B2 Electrolysis Technologies in its business combination with RMG Acquisition Corporation
    • Basalt Infrastructure Partners in its acquisition of Fatbeam, a leading broadband service provider
    • Lime Rock Partners in Ardyne’s strategic partnership with Weatherford
    • 10X Capital in its business combinations with Sparks Energy, African Agriculture , and Prime Blockchain
    • Mercuria Energy Trading in its sale of Beyond6, LLC, an energy solutions company, to Chevron
    • Lucid Energy Group in its US$3.55 billion acquisition by Targa Resources Corp.
    • TotalEnergies in its acquisition of SunPower’s Commercial & Industrial Solutions business
    • A private equity investor in its majority investment in a provider of compliance management software
    • A private equity investor in its add-on acquisition of a property information services company

    Capital Markets Transactions

    • Initial purchasers in Blue Racer Midstream’s US$1 billion offering of senior notes
    • Initial purchasers in NOVA Chemicals’ US$560 million senior notes offering and concurrent tender offer
    • Underwriters in the underwritten public offering of Northern Oil and Gas’s common stock
    • Initial purchasers in Diamond Offshore Drilling’s upsized US$550 million private placement of senior secured second lien notes
    • Underwriters in the US$125 million follow-on offering of common stock of Evgo Inc. and subsequent exercise of greenshoe option
    • Sales Agents in Evgo Inc.’s launch of its “at-the-market” continuous offering program
    • Initial purchasers in the US$200 million tack-on senior notes offering of Colgate Energy Partners III, LLC
    • Selling shareholder in a secondary offering of common stock of an oilfield services company
    • Selling shareholders in a  secondary offering of its limited partner interests in Hess Midstream LP
    • Vertiv Holdings Co in an underwritten secondary offering of Vertiv’s common stock by an affiliate of Platinum Equity

    Structured Finance and Asset-Backed Securitizations

    • Diversified Energy Company in its sustainability-linked securitized financings
    • Caerus Oil & Gas in its inaugural US$565 million securitized financing

    Qualifications

    Bar Qualification

    • Massachusetts
    • Texas

    Education

    • Juris Doctor, Harvard Law School, 2020
    • BS (Hons) in Accounting & Finance, Lahore University of Management Sciences, 2010

    Languages Spoken

    • English
    • Urdu

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